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Providing IT support and solution to small and medium businesses. Servicing Edinburgh, Livingston, Fife and surrounding areas. Responsive, Flexible, Professional and friendly local support.

Phone System – Its not too late to switch.

About us! Based in Livingston Mear Technology believe in offering a customer focused experience. We offer a range of IT Support services that we tailor to our customers need’s. We are a one-stop provider for your IT need (support, sales, broadband and telecoms).  If you are interested in us reviewing all your IT overheads, we…
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Praise where praise is due!

As business we need to help one another to keep going. Some are feeling the pressure sooner than others, We just received a lovely email from a client praising our assistance. We have where ever possible assisted our clients remain open while dispersing their staff while trying to remain productive. Tools like #office365 #treams #3CXPhonesystems…
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What to Do If You Suddenly Have to Support 80% of Users Working Remotely

https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2020/03/what-to-do-if-you-suddenly-have-to-support-80-of-users-working-remotely.html A good article that help explain the difficulties of moving your workforce to a primarily a at home workforce.

Dyson Scraps “Not Commercially Viable” Electric Car

Dyson has scrapped its £2.5 billion ‘N526’ electric car project with Sir James Dyson announcing that it was “not commercially viable”. So Close The project, which could be traced back to 1993 with the development of a cyclonic vehicle exhaust that could cut 95 per cent of harmful emissions, evolved into the full-blown development of…
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Hutchinson Networks in Administration

Sad news today as we have just heard that Hutchinson Networks has collapsed. The Edinburgh based firm closes putting 94 staff out of work. We are sorry to hear this news. We hope they all manage to find new jobs soon. If Any of Hutchison Network are looking for short term cover why they evaluate…
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Hard of Hearing? Skype Offers Live Captions And Subtitles

On 3rd December, Skype announced that it was celebrating United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities by launching its new call captioning with live captions and subtitles feature. Inclusivity & Accessibility Skype says that this latest feature, which uses AI-driven captions, is part of its on-going work to make Skype more inclusive and make…
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Liberty Wins Right To Judicial Review Into Investigatory Powers Act

The fact that Human rights group Liberty has won the right for a judicial review into the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 could mean a legal challenge in the high court as soon as this year. The Investigatory Powers Act The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (also known as the ‘Snooper’s Charter’) became law in the UK…
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How to set your “Out Of Office” message on your iPhone with O365

Step 1: Open the settings of the iPhone Step 2: Scroll down and tap  “Accounts & Passwords” (about half way down the page) Step 3: Tap the office 365 account you wish to enable out of office on. This is the 1st item down in the list on my test phone. Step 4: Scroll to…
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Using AVAYA? Switch to 3CX without the need to replace all your handsets.

One of the biggest costs involved in switching from any PBX is replacing all the handsets. Good news is that 3CX can help deliver significant advantages over AVAYA. Get rid of that call logging PC and voicemail server and move to 3CX and start saving today. If you are looking to migrate from AVAYA get…
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Engadget: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update may arrive on October 17th

Built in artificial intelligence to fight malware Built in movie editor One drive files on demand to save disk space Roam between multiple devices and pickup where you left off Engadget: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update may arrive on October 17th. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw9ryX8TU More info https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/upcoming-features